Tuesday, January 28, 2014

1-28-13 Jive

Good evening! It’s Tuesday, January 28th.This is the Jive at Five - our daily community
calendar and rundown of night time programming here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown,
your listener supported station for NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public
affairs by day and the best in free-form community programming weeknights and
weekends.I'm Marianne O’Hare, producer
of Conversations on Health Care – Heard on Wednesdays at 4:30 here on WESU.Thanks for joining us.

Here’s a brief rundown of some of the cultural and entertaining
happenings in our area this week.

Here in Middletown, The S.W.E.E.T. Potato Society Meets at the
Buttonwood Tree at 8pm. tonight. Friday night, Donna Martin and Gail Wade
joining forces for a night of songwriting, great guitar playing and harmonies
as they weave their way through their combined catalogs of folk, country,
bluegrass and beyond. Saturday morning
kicks off with Tai Chi and a self empowerment workshop at The Buttonwood.You can catch the internationally acclaimed Laszlo Gardony Jazz Trio Saturday
night at the Buttonwood.On Sundays,
Food Not Bombs serves food outside the Buttonwood at 1 pm, all are welcome. You
are also invited to help prepare the meal beforehand at 11 am at First Church
Congregational on Court Street. This Sunday evening brings the return of the
improv-comedy troupe, The Great Make Believe Society to the Buttonwood at 7pm.www.buttonwood.org

Down in New Haven, tonight, Drink
Deeply presents: A triple bill with James
Fonicello,Michael
Kusek,and M.T. Bearington. Wednesday
night Cafe 9 presents Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound and The Hoolios for a night of
rocking roots and rhythm and blues with a New Orleans flavor!! Thursday night,
Spirit Family Reunion plays homegrown American music to stomp, clap, shake and
holler with at the Nine. That bill also features Quiet Life from Portland,
OR.Friday night Drink Deeply presents:
a night of metal and loud rock with Intercourse, GRIZZLOR, Death Church, and
Reptilian Race.Cafe Nine’s weekly
Saturday afternoon Jazz Jam will be hosted by Mike Coppola and Friends this
week.Saturday night Café nine hosts a
record Release Show for Moving
Brooklyn featuring Breakthrough
Frequencies and Pat Mitchell.Sunday evening brings the Blues Boot Camp
with Greg Sherrod to The Nine. www.cafenine.com

In Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, on Tuesday nights Michael Palin’s
Other Orchestra, an 18 piece band, works out new material. Wednesday’s long
running weekly Blues Jam will be hosted by Tim Mcdonald. Friday Night, Shaka
& the Soul Shakers take the Sally’s stage for a night of authentic
Bluesiana Swamp Soul. Saturday night Easy Baby plays electric post war blues at
Sally’s .www.blackeyedsallys.com.

The CT Poetry Society Middletown Chapter holds its monthly meeting
at 6pm this Wednesday in meeting room 3 at Russell Library. The Middletown
Scottish Country Dancers also gather at The Library Wednesday evening at
7pm.Author Elisabeth Petry will
continue to lead The Veterans' Writing Group at 7:00 pm on Thursday night in
Meeting Room 2 at Russell Library.www.Russellllibrary.org

Also down in New Haven, Wednesday night Toad’s Place presents a
night of Americana with GREENSKY BLUEGRASS and Tumbleweed Wanderers. Friday
night SHAKEDOWN returns to the Toads Place Stage.Eggy and Leaf Jumpers open that show.www.toadsplace.com.

Thursday at 5pm Wesleyan University Center for the Arts
presents: The Opening Reception and Gallery Talk for the new Davison Art
Center’s show, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" on display through
March 5th. Thursday and Friday bring The New England Premiere of The Assembly’s
production "HOME/SICK" t the CFA Theater.The Assembly is a Brooklyn-based ensemble
theater project of multi-disciplinary performance artists.
"HOME/SICK", explores the political history of how a handful of
student activist leaders, disgusted by the Vietnam War and the U.S.
government’s repression of those seeking equality domestically, seized control
of the Students for a Democratic Society movement in 1969.

There will be a post-performance Q&A with Mark Rudd on Thursday
January 30. Mr. Rudd was a student activist and organizer in the Students for a
Democratic Society at Columbia University, and helped found the Weather
Underground. He was a federal fugitive from 1970 to 1977. Upon his return to
the U.S., Mr. Rudd has worked as an organizer and community college instructor
in Albuquerque, New Mexico.www.Wesleyan.edu/cfafor details

Now here's a rundown of some cinema off the beaten path in Central
Connecticut:

Through Thursday, Real Art Ways in Hartford, is showing "The Rocket", in which a boy leads
his family on calamity-filled journey Laos to find a new home. Also showing
through Thursday at Real Art Ways is “More Than Honey “, an informative, and
suitably contemplative study of the bee world and the world wide bee-population
crisis. This Weekend, Real Art Ways begins their series of Oscar nominate short
films. www.realartways.org.

Tonight, Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema in Hartford ends their run of Part
1 of the controversial German television
miniseries Generation War. Opening
Wednesday at Cinestudio is the film, “12 years a Slave”, a movie based on the
memoirs of Solomon Northup, who was born a free man in the North, only to be
sold into slavery when he visited Washington, D.C. where he lived in bondage
for another 12 years. Sunday, Cinestudio begins a run of Generation War, part
2. More can be found at www.cinestudio.org

And now here’s a rundown of tonight’s programming on WESU.

Right after the jive at Five stay tuned for a drive time
dose of Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill featuring an eclectic mix of roots
music.

At 6pm, experience to 30 minutes of commentary from the World Socialist news
Website.

Bill Revill is back in the chair for a 90 more minutes of Americana roots music
on Acoustic Blender at 6:30

J-Cherry and the Strawberry’s host an hour of live local arts and entertainment
from 8-9pm.

At 9pm DJ Cheshire Cat offers a truncated episode of his free form music
show, Wonderland to make room for the 4th and final episode of a “75 Years of
Socially Conscious Music” beginning at 10pm. Broadcast weekly throughout
January, this program features listener and staff suggestions that reflect both
socially conscious music and WESU’s 75 year old commitment to free form radio!

But the “75 Years of…” project will continue throughout 2014, and WESU wants
your input! Each month, we’ll have a new theme, and we want your
suggestions on songs to include! February will feature “75 Years of Lyrics
Beyond the English Language”. We are looking for your favorite recordings
whose lyrics are in a language other than English, regardless of genre. Details
online at www.wesufm.org

at 11:30 Dylan is back from break to bring some heavy duty loud rock and roll
to the airwaves on A Hate supreme.

After that we will dip into the WESU program archives to bring
you some long lost programs to keep you warm and cozy.

The BBC world news starts at 4am and that’s followed by NPR's Morning Edition
at 5am.

And that’s all for today’s Jive at Five, if you didn’t get a chance to write
down some of the information mentioned in our community calendar, the script is
published online at www.wesufm.org/jive

2014 Marks 75 years of Alternative music, Public Affairs, and community service
for WESU. Look for information on special programming and events online at
www.wesufm.org

We also hope you will vote for WESU as the Best College radio station in the CT
Now / Hartford Advocate Best of Hartford Readers Poll. Look for our DJs in the
Brest Radio show category too! You can find a link to the poll on
our website or at www.CTnow.com . The polls are only open through February 5th,
so please help us out and spread the word!

Thanks for listening! Stay tuned for some great Acoustic Music with Bill
Revill.